How about we celebrate the jubilee with a "fairy" garden. Miniature banners, barns, animals, etc. These gardens are really hot in our area and it will remind me how much fun MJF is to us. Anyone interested in the idea?

Bonnie,It is funny that you should mention this idea. I am actually creating a complete village around the front part of my trailer with a village which includes: Houses, Roads, Horse drawn carriages, fairies, gnomes, farm animals, and a small little village as well as the outskirts of a town. I just bought all the fixings of clay to create some of the accessories and people and will be making the outskirt houses from mother nature.Becky

May the stars carry your sadness away. May the flowers fill your heart with beauty, and may hope forever wipe away your tears.

Callene: absolutely your gnome garden would count but you have to dress it up for jubilee. I wasn't really thinking fairies but more another place to decorate. Mini should be fun. Rebecca: your village sounds like fun. Please post pictures.

Love love love this idea! My girls have been working on a fairy garden and my boys feel "left out" (fairies are for girls, lol). So a farm garden would be fantastic. And we could decorate both for the jubilee!

His Dudeness has set aside the base of one of the big trees just outside our bedroom for my fairy garden. We had a new deck built last year and a bunch of outdoor remodeling, so I am anxious for the weather to warm up enough to get out and get to work on it. I love the idea of dressing up the fairy garden for jubilee! I bet we could shrink the banner down on a good copier to make a banner for the garden.

Listening to you girls talk about your mini-gardens has gotten me excited about making one too. Will do it in a small flowerbed I can see from my computer. Now to gather things up to make it. Next trip to Salvation Army I will look for mini-items. In the meantime I will work on adapting a birdhouse for the farmhouse; My garden will be small: a farmhouse; maybe a barn; chicken coop; flowerbeds & veg garden; can't forget a mini clothesline with wee aprons.

Oh what a great idea! I have this beautiful magestic old oak tree in my back yard. Gosh it must be over 200 years old (my home is over 150 yrs old). Sometimes I sit quietly on the swing and listen to the stories it has to tell. Anyway, I am convince we have fairies that live there! I sure they won't mind if I do a bit of decorating around their entrance!

Let's not forget to post pictures as these Jubilee mini gardens become reality. I know kids love these because our nurseries have free classes to make them and my hubby and I each made one, his a bonsai tray complete with bridge and mine a camping trailer in a pot filled with sand and cactus. Even our 93 year old aunt wanted to make one. Have fun gals.

Thank you veryn much.Thinking of a Jubilee banner over the main street in my gnome village.Thinking scrapbook paper covered in clear contact paper,for weather resistance.One big problem already has arised for my village.We have cat attacks,think litter box.Any suggestions?I was thinking pepper.Dogs do not like it,works real good on trash.Someone elsesaid mothballs.Any thoughts girls?

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Callene: absolutely your gnome garden would count but you have to dress it up for jubilee. I wasn't really thinking fairies but more another place to decorate. Mini should be fun. Rebecca: your village sounds like fun. Please post pictures.

This is excellent timing! My daughter (17 yrs) and I were just talking last week about refurbishing our fairy garden! What a fun idea! I have some mini gourds that I wasn't sure what to do with them, (they were left over from a mini gourd drum necklace project), they would make great fairy/gnome houses!

this is my 'fairy garden' that I started 3 weeks ago,,, not a true fairy garden,,, but it is just a sweet deco element that I placed near my front door.The bronze casting of the fairy was in the 'Storage Unit' we bought last fall... I had it stashed in the garage with a lot of other stuff that I was planning on yard selling,,, then about 2-3 weeks ago I went to a 'fairy garden/small container gardening' class at our local True Value store,,, got home and remembered my 12" tall bronze fairy,,, thou not true to scale, I don't mind, after all, it's all about the whimsy and making one smile when seeing this...

Birdie and I were in Hobby Lobby yesterday . . . I found all the gnomes and fairies. I told Robin I'd been interested in a gnome for a long time. I found a small one . . . for now. I may go back before going back home (we don't have Hobby Lobby at home)CJ

I know a young woman who has some major health issues,,, long story short, she mentioned how she misses gardening, so I suggested a 'portable' Fairy Garden. She can use a med size plastic pot/container fill w/potting soil, and add a few alyssums and or cactus plants and then a few little mini deco elements. I told her to get a few interesting shape stones, paint them or write motivational words on them to add to her wee garden... she can set the fairy garden on a small table or on a chair near a window... so when the window is open the scent from the alyssums will waft through her room.